On Fri, 2009-04-24 at 23:22 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Sat, 2009-04-25 at 03:09 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote: > > > FYI, Adam didn't revive the old mixer (that is still in gnome-media, but > > disabled), he revived gnome-alsamixer, another GNOME ALSA mixer with no > > upstream. > > It does have one; it's part of GNOME's git. The git checkout command is > included as a comment right at the top of the spec. Oh, code is available. Last code check-in was 4 years ago: http://git.gnome.org/cgit/gnome-alsamixer/tree/ChangeLog > > The URL mentioned in the spec file[1] says: > > "The page cannot be found" > > Sorry, I'll adjust that. > > > If the thing is going to get installed by default, you should at _least_ > > package up the old gnome-volume-control. Otherwise, yes, I'll be a pain > > and drag this to the board. > > My thinking on that is explained in the bug report. I'd say the old > g-v-c has less of an upstream, because the old g-v-c effectively doesn't > exist anywhere except in history. It's in the gst-mixer sub-dir of gnome-media: http://git.gnome.org/cgit/gnome-media/tree/gst-mixer It's still the volume control for systems that don't have PulseAudio like Solaris or *BSDs. > Where could it get developed in > future, if we wanted to push some changes upstream? The new g-v-c is > effectively a completely different application, it doesn't count as > 'upstream' for the old g-v-c any more. I don't think you'd be accepting > patches for the *old* g-v-c into the *new* one :) No, but Brian Cameron is maintaining the old gnome-volume-control. > gnome-alsamixer exists as a module in GNOME git. Hence if we're correct > in identifying a demand for a full-access mixer in GNOME, > gnome-alsamixer is in fact the project which could more easily be > resurrected as a proper upstream application. It'd be rather hard to do > that for the old g-v-c - it would have to be changed to be identified as > something completely different from the *new* g-v-c. > > I'm not particularly attached to this logic, though. If everyone agrees > the old g-v-c is the way to go I'm fine with that, as I said all I > really wanted is a full-access mixer in the default install. > -- > Adam Williamson <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx> > Red Hat > -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
